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answered on Saturday, Jan 09, 2021 09:53:30 AM by Patrick | |
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It is an ad. The appeal to extremes is "erroneously attempting to make a reasonable argument into an absurd one, by taking the argument to the extremes." I am guessing you are conflating the absurd hypothetical I referenced (killing humans for food) with the argument being absurd itself. Plus, this doesn't follow the form of the fallacy: If X is true, then Y must also be true (where Y is the extreme of X). The fallacious version would go as follows: "If it's true that eating fish is okay, then it also must be true that eating humans is okay," where "humans" is can be seen as the extreme form of life (in terms of complexity, consciousness, etc.). As an aside (not that it matters here), in the book, I discuss the actual problems with this argument. The book is NOT a book that supports veganism. |
answered on Saturday, Jan 09, 2021 07:49:17 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD | |
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